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Fintech unicorn TransferWise sees valuation climb to $5 billion
TransferWise employees and early investors sold some of their stakes in a $319 million secondary deal. The company’s $5 billion valuation makes it ...
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Propeller Closes $18M Series B Funding Round
Propeller, a Denver, CO-based 3D mapping and worksite analytics company that builds hardware and software to simplify data capture, processing, and analysis for ...
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India -Vernacular ed-tech startup Entri tops up pre-Series A funding round
Novoy Software Pvt Ltd, which operates the vernacular language-focussed education-technology platform Entri, has raised an additional $1.7 million (Rs 12.71 crore at current ...
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Hippo challenging Lemonade for insurtech supremacy in unicorn battle of Israeli entrepreneurs
After rival Lemonade reached a market cap of over $4 billion, Hippo has completed a $150 million financing round at a valuation of ...
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Sprout Brings In $10M Seed Round For Autism Care Platform
As a child, Yury Yakubchyk was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and his case was so severe he had difficulty attending school every ...
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How Tokyo-based VC, Samurai Incubate Africa invests in African startups
Samurai Incubate is a Japanese early-stage venture capital firm and incubator. Via its Samurai Incubate Fund, the firm claims to have invested in more ...
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Group payments startup goDutch raises $1.7 million in seed round
Early-stage payments startup goDutch has raised $1.7 million in a seed round led by venture capital firm Matrix India along with investors including Y Combinator, ...
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Disposable card issuer Privacy.com lands $10.2m
Privacy.com, the New York-based fintech which allows users to create disposable virtual cards, has landed $10.2 million in Series A funding. The round ...
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Nigerian, Kenyan childcare e-commerce startups merge to form pan-African platform
BabyBliss Nigeria brings deep retail and e-commerce experience in Africa’s largest economy, while MumsVillage Kenya, a parental advisory platform that moved into the e-commerce space last ...
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UK savings app Moneybox lands £30m, plans crowdfund
Moneybox, a UK-founded savings and investing app, landed $30 million in a Series C funding round. The London-based firm secured backing from new ...
